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- While the juicy performances and exciting meat of Savages are vicious fun, it’s a film whose feeble conceit undoes the pleasures of its base appeal. Rated: 2.5/4 • Oct 4, 2022 Messy, violent, and often garish, but it's capably directed by Stone.
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California entrepreneurs Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) run a lucrative business raising marijuana and share a one-of-a-kind love with beautiful O (Blake Lively).
- (195)
- Oliver Stone
- R
- Taylor Kitsch
Jul 4, 2012 · Oliver Stone’s “Savages” is a moral tangle embedded in a bloody war between two best buddies in Laguna Beach and the queen of a Mexican drug cartel. A return to form for Stone’s dark side, “Savages” generates ruthless energy and some, but not too much, humor.
Jul 5, 2012 · “Savages,” Oliver Stone’s feverish adaptation of Don Winslow’s drug-war novel, is a pulpy daylight noir, a western, a stoner buddy movie and a love story.
- Oliver Stone
- A.O. Scott
- 5 min
The film follows two marijuana growers, Chon, an ex-Navy SEAL, and Ben, who are best friends, as they confront the Mexican drug cartel that kidnapped their shared girlfriend. The film was released on July 6, 2012, to mixed reviews, and grossed $83 million worldwide.
Savages: Directed by Oliver Stone. With Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jana Banker. Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
- (135K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Oliver Stone
- 2012-07-06
Jul 6, 2012 · Oliver Stone's new film Savages is a violent thriller starring Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson as pot growers caught up in a Mexican drug war. Critic David Edelstein says the movie is...
Jun 28, 2012 · Populated by wasted beauties and ruthless thugs, and shot through with moments of black humor and hair-trigger intensity, this bloody, scuzzy cocktail of a movie assuredly won’t be to every taste.
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